When Is A Card Not A Card? When It’s A ………. (Plus A Teeny Bit Of Trumpet Blowing )

Hi peeps and  I hope that you are all OK and having a nice week :)

Phew, what a looooong post title today – I think it’s a record for us here lol and it’s also a bit of a loooong post as well!!!

Hugest of thanks to everybody who joined in last week.
What a wonderful response and there were some gorgeous festive projects for sure.

So who was our winner?

Wooohoo hooooo,  it’s Loopy Lou :)

Well done chick and if you e-mail me I’ll pass your details onto Tracy at Dies To Die For  and hugest of thanks to her for her wonderful sponsorship xxx

And check out what Lou did peeps …..

…  I LOVE it chick – what a clever sentiment :)x

Before we move on to other stuff I just had to share this with you ……

This was made for our challenge by Kristian and he is 4.5 years old.
I think it’s so lovely and well done to him for making such a great card. You can see it on his Mamma’s blog here and thank you Moni for sharing with us.

Just one more thing before we get to the cardy bit and this I just HAD to share.

We’ve only gone and made the top ten in our category here …..

I received an email last week from a nice lady called Fleur and this is what she said …

I wanted to pop you a quick email to let you know that we have just published The Most Wanted 100 Essential Blogs: Christmas Edition and we’re pleased to let you know that you and your blog, Papertake Weekly, was featured in the Best Craft blogs category.

Here at Most Wanted we created this list of the top 100 blogs in the UK, not only to showcase the best blogging talent out there, but also to help our readers out this Christmas. We’re incredibly passionate about supporting the UK blogging community and believe that blogs are a really great way for our users to find not only great deals but also really interesting Christmas ideas and information.

Acting as an amazing resource for gift ideas, experiences and decorative inspiration, blogs really highlight what’s out there this Christmas - from affordable recipe ideas and wine suggestions, to New Year fitness regimes and money-saving tips. This isn’t the only list we pull together either, we have successfully created The Most Wanted Fashion 100 for two consecutive years running.

The Most Wanted 100 Essential Blogs: Christmas Edition is an online list of the most influential blogs in the UK (within their categories) of the past six months.  We have painstakingly scoured the web to find ten publishing leaders in each of the ten categories. The categories we looked at were:

Best Theatre Blogs
Best Food Blogs
Best Beauty Blogs
Best Wine Blogs
Best Travel Blogs
Best Home Décor Blogs
Best Craft Blogs
Best Money Saving Blogs
Best TV Blogs
Best Health and Fitness Blogs

Well you could have blown me down with a feather,  and given the extra lardage I have put on of late, that would have been no mean feat!!!! So wooohooo and well done to us I say and of course hugest of thanks to all you lovely Papertakers cos if you weren't here then neither would we be. You can read all about it here and see the other blogs on the top 10 lists and congratulations to them all.

So finally onto this week and our theme is

When Is A Card it A Card? When It’s A ……..

So our challenge is to create a card that doubles up as something else ie a gift voucher, money holder, that sort of thing.

Now you will notice when you get to the pics that somebody here has made a box. Yes peeps, somebody here did not read the challenge properly . And it wouldn't be so bad but that somebody was the one that does the challenge list and it was her idea. I’ll leave you  to guess which plonker it was, but they should have gone to Specsavers!!!! 

So if you want to make a box of a gift, then that will be fine as well.
Hugest of apols to my teamies  - I do not know how they put up with my dippiness!!!!!

And speaking of teamies,  I am ohhh so pleased to welcome back my fave mother and daughter duo, the fabulous Mary & Andrea who are of course …

 

And our prize this week is ….

 

….  a fab voucher for you to spend in the shop.
There’s so much eye candy there  so it’s well worth a mooch and hugest of thanks to our girls for sponsoring us :)

So without further ado, let’s check out what the PTW crew did this week …...

Liz  (GDT)

 

Carissa  (GDT)

     

 

Andrea

 

Mary

 

Jill

 

Angie

 

Lols

 

Debi

 

Lisa

 

Sharon

 

Katina

 

Natalie

 

Jenny

 

Jo

and finally (plonker alert)  Dawny P

 

 

So that’s what we did and now it’s over to you, and if you get a sec, don’t forget if you get a sec to check out our individual blogs and see what else we have been up to.

As always, could we ask a huge favour peeps please.

Could you help to make our job at leaving comments easier by turning off comment verification and enabling comment moderation instead please pretty please xxxx. It’s ever so easy to do – see our sidebar – and you won’t get spam comments as you can easily reject the comments that you don't want to appear. And also, can we remind you nicely that’s it’s fine to combine challenges but please, no back linking. We hope you understand that it’s only fair to those who make a new card xxx

And also, can I just give you a nice gentle reminder to ask if you could make sure that you link your card and not your blog when using good old Mr Linky please my lovelies. It makes life so much easier for our DT if they don’t have to go searching for your cards.

Thanks ever so muchly – we really do appreciate it xxx

Also just to let you know that sometimes it is not possible for the Design Team to leave a comments on every entry, with these Blogger issues that some of us are having at the mo – grrrrrr what a nightmare. But please be assured that we do stop by and we are doing our best and every single eligible entry goes into the draw for our prizes even if we don’t manage to leave you a comment.

Thanks peeps for bearing with us and hugs from all of us to all of you xxx

First Christmas …….Card Of The Year At PTW!!

Hi peeps and  I hope that you are all OK and having a nice week :)

Hugest of thanks to everybody who joined in last week. What a FAB-U-LOUS response and there were some beauties out there for sure.

So who was our winner?

Well this week it’s Vivi Casale 

Well done chick and if you e-mail me I’ll pass your details onto Lisa & Laila at Lili Of The Valley and hugest of thanks to them for their wonderful sponsorship xxx

And check out what Vivi did peeps …..

… it’s a lovely get well card for her friend.
Poor old Edwin!!

So onto this week and our theme is

First Christmas.

It’s our  first Christmas challenge of the year here at Papertake so it’s self explanatory really. You can make a Christmas card or you can make a First Christmas card – tis up to you and either will be fine.

I am so pleased to welcome back the loveliness that is Tracy over at Dies To Die For as our sponsor this week and there is …

….  a bit of yumminess up for grabs to spend in the shop.
There’s new stuff being added all the time so it’s well worth a trip over for a crafty mooch and hugest of thanks to Tracy for sponsoring us :)

So without further ado, let’s check out what the PTW crew did this week …...

Liz  (GDT)

 

Carissa  (GDT)

 

Andrea

 

Mary

 

Jill

 

Angie

 

Lols

 

Debi

 

Lisa

 

Sharon

 

Katina

 

Natalie

 

Jenny

 

Dawny P

So that’s what we did and now it’s over to you, and if you get a sec, don’t forget if you get a sec to check out our individual blogs and see what else we have been up to.

As always, could we ask a huge favour peeps please.

Could you help to make our job at leaving comments easier by turning off comment verification and enabling comment moderation instead please pretty please xxxx. It’s ever so easy to do – see our sidebar – and you won’t get spam comments as you can easily reject the comments that you don't want to appear. And also, can we remind you nicely that’s it’s fine to combine challenges but please, no back linking. We hope you understand that it’s only fair to those who make a new card xxx

And also, can I just give you a nice gentle reminder to ask if you could make sure that you link your card and not your blog when using good old Mr Linky please my lovelies. It makes life so much easier for our DT if they don’t have to go searching for your cards.

Thanks ever so muchly – we really do appreciate it xxx

Also just to let you know that sometimes it is not possible for the Design Team to leave a comments on every entry, with these Blogger issues that some of us are having at the mo – grrrrrr what a nightmare. But please be assured that we do stop by and we are doing our best and every single eligible entry goes into the draw for our prizes even if we don’t manage to leave you a comment.

Thanks peeps for bearing with us and hugs from all of us to all of you xxx

Anything Goes (Plus A Bit Of Bling If You Want :)

Hi peeps and a very happy November to you all - I hope that you are all OK and having a nice week :)

Hugest of thanks to everybody who joined in last week and there were some great interpretations of the old sketch.

So who was our winner?

Well this week it’s Dawn B  - woohoooooo, and what a great name to win lol :)

Well done chick and if you e-mail me I’ll pass your details onto Heidi over at Simon Says Stamp  and hugest of thanks to them for their wonderful sponsorship xxx

And check out what Dawn did peeps …..

… this is so sweet :)

So onto this week and as it’s the first one of the month we have our

Anything Goes

challenge and this month the optional extra is to add a bit of sparkle and bling – well it’s nearly 5th November :) But remember,  it is only optional and you don't have to use it if you don't want to :)

And of course, as it’s the first one of the month, we are sponsored by those lovely girlies Lisa and Laila over at Lili Of The Valley.

And check out what’s up for grabs peeps ….

There is a  new release out soon and if you are going to Birmingham then you’ll be able to get your mitts on them there, otherwise they will be out on 10th of this month.

Hugest of thanks to the 2 lovely ‘L’s  :)xxx

Before we get to the cards, we have to say hello and welcome to our new GDT  Carissa and Liz who will be with us throughout November. We hope you enjoy your stay with us girlies and we cannot wait to see what you do with the challenges :)

AND we have some more news because we have another full time DT girlie to introduce to you. Some of you may remember that I did a Copics Retreat a few weeks ago and this lovely girl was on the Retreat. When I saw her colouring I was blown away so I just had to ask her to join us … and she said yes, so I am pleased to welcome Jenny into the Papertake fold. We hope you will enjoy being part of our fab team chick.

So without further ado, let’s check out what the PTW crew did this week …...

Liz  (GDT)

 

Carissa  (GDT)

 

Jenny

 

Andrea

 

Mary

 

Jill

 

Angie

 

Lols

 

Debi

Lisa

 

Sharon

 

Katina

 

Natalie 

 

Dawny P

 

So that’s what we did and now it’s over to you, and if you get a sec, don’t forget if you get a sec to check out our individual blogs and see what else we have been up to.

As always, could we ask a huge favour peeps please.

Could you help to make our job at leaving comments easier by turning off comment verification and enabling comment moderation instead please pretty please xxxx. It’s ever so easy to do – see our sidebar – and you won’t get spam comments as you can easily reject the comments that you don't want to appear. And also, can we remind you nicely that’s it’s fine to combine challenges but please, no back linking. We hope you understand that it’s only fair to those who make a new card xxx

And also, can I just give you a nice gentle reminder to ask if you could make sure that you link your card and not your blog when using good old Mr Linky please my lovelies. It makes life so much easier for our DT if they don’t have to go searching for your cards.

Thanks ever so muchly – we really do appreciate it xxx

Also just to let you know that sometimes it is not possible for the Design Team to leave a comments on every entry, with these Blogger issues that some of us are having at the mo – grrrrrr what a nightmare. But please be assured that we do stop by and we are doing our best and every single eligible entry goes into the draw for our prizes even if we don’t manage to leave you a comment.

Thanks peeps for bearing with us and hugs from all of us to all of you xxx